That’s the shockingly bitter accusation Tori
Spelling makes about the actress, a former
friend, in her new no-holds-barred book, Spelling It Like It
Is.

Spelling and Holmes first met years ago, when
Holmes was on "Dawson’s Creek" and Spelling was still on
"90210."

“A friend of mine at the time did a movie with
her, "Teaching Mrs. Tingle,"” Spelling explains, and soon the group decided to get together
for drinks at Trader Vic’s restaurant and bar in Los
Angeles.

“"Dawson’s Creek" Katie was exactly what you’d
expect,” Spelling writes. “She was wearing jeans and a tank top. Her hair
was down. She was shy but engaging, and altogether pretty
adorable.”

Flash forward several years and Spelling was waiting to meet with
vocal coach Eric Vetro for her new TV movie "The
Mistletones."

She writes, “as I sat waiting outside his
music room, I heard his prior appointment working with him in the other room. It
was some actress singing horribly off-key … That made me feel better. I heard him say good-bye and then
the actress walked out of the room. It was Katie
Holmes.”

Holmes stopped to say hi, as Spelling writes:
“I didn’t know whether we should hug or shake hands. But the signal from her was
immediately clear: Don’t even come close. I instantly got nervous. We clearly
weren’t going to catch up on the last ten years. And
we certainly weren’t going to talk about her husband, Tom
Cruise.

So instead, Spelling says, she pulled out “the
mommy card,” complimenting Holmes on her
daughter, Suri and telling Holmes she had kids her own
age.

Holmes didn’t bite, responding “Oh, do you?” Spelling
claims.

“Then I was annoyed,” she
writes.

“Come on. Okay, I know your’e busy. But you’re
in the public eye. Don’t tell me you don’t follow the tabloids. Don’t tell
me you don’t know anything about other celebrities and their
kids.”

“Then we stood there,” she says. “She was just
plastic. In a perfectly polite way. … My pits were drenched. I never sweat. It
was that awkward. I thought, I know
you’re not a robot because you can’t sing for sh*t
…”

Spelling continues, “As my anxiety faded, I
just felt sorry for her. I hadn’t expected her to reminisce, but this was a
totally different person from the girl I’d met at Trader Vic’s. I felt sad for
her. Those paparazzi photos, the ones where she looks like she’s miserable but putting
on a happy face? That’s what she looked like in
person.”

“Not long after that encounter,” she says,
“the news would break that she and Tom had split
up.”